Our Team
Executive Staff
Yasmeen Hamza
Chief Executive Officer
Alena Victor
Chief Program Officer
Carolyn Antonio
Director, Development
Pavan Makhija
Senior Financial Consultant
Sasha-Ann Frazer
Associate Director, Community Programs
Shan Huang
Associate Director, Special Programs
To Be Announced
Associate Director, Residential Programs
Franchesca Parra
Human Resources Manager
To Be Announced
Manager, Brooklyn Community Office
Reema Sharma
Manager, Community Education and Outreach
Rahnum Tasnuva
Manager, Helpline
Alisha Mohammed
Manager, Legal Program
Kaori Nagao
Manager, Manhattan Community Office
Mary Caparas
Manager, Project Free
Zhong Zhuang
Manager, Queens Community Office
Yu Wu Cao
Manager, Residential Programs
Taykina Chowdhury
Manager, Residential Programs
Board of Directors
Karen Elizaga
Chair
Executive Coach, Forward Options, LLC and Author, Find Your Sweet Spot
Narges M. Kakalia
Vice Chair
Partner, Mintz Levin Cohn Ferris Glovsky & Popeo, PC
Mika Tsugiyama Bouvard
Treasurer
Former Case Writer, Columbia University, Columbia Business School
Alexander Ong
Secretary
Technology Consultant
Yogesh Bahl
Board Member
Managing Director, AlixPartners
Deborah Chan
Board Member
Attorney, Law Office of Deborah Chan, PC
Zal Dabhoiwala
Ex-Officio Board Member
IT Auditor, Banco do Brasil
Sujata Dayal
Board Member
VP & Global Chief Compliance Officer, Medline Industries
Flora Feng
Board Member
Senior Legal Director, PepsiCo
Merv Garretson
Board Member
Group Creative Director, Hearst
Jenifer Garvey
Board Member
Susanna Hong
Board Member
Mae Hsieh
Board Member
New York University JD/MBA
Ankur Keswani
Ex-Officio Board Member
Senior Managing Director, Serengeti Asset Management
Hoon-Jung Kim
Ex-Officio Board Member
Corporate Counsel, Google Inc.
Joanna Martin
Board Member
Global VP, Communications & Social Media, Kiehl's
Janet Akie Masamitsu
Board Member
Owner/Metalsmith, Janet Sterling Silver Design
Nina Pineda
Board Member
Consumer Reporter, WABC-TV
Cassidy Sehgal-Kolbet
Ex-Officio Board Member
Vice President, Digital and Advertising Law, L'Oreal USA
Niketa Sheth
Ex-Officio Board Member
Eric Su
Board Member
Partner, Crowell & Moring
Kyoko Waseda-Hida
Ex-Officio Board Member
Executive Director, Goldman Sachs
Jarret Yoshida
Board Member
Interior Designer, Jarret Yoshida, Inc.
Young Professionals Board
ChanMi Park
President
Associate Director of Strategy, HS Ad
Pamela Rose
Co-President & Membership Chair
K-12 Educator (Mandarin)
David Chang
Vice President
Research Assistant, Paul Weiss
Ines Iskra
Treasurer
Childcare
Ivy Shen
Donor Relations
Associate Director, Leadership Gifts and Stewardship, Human Rights Watch
Elliott Tran
Marketing & Communications Chair
Graduate Student, Columbia University
Tiffany Baek
YPB Member
Freelance Fashion Stylist
Kayla Chen
YPB Member
Executive Assistant and Board Liaison, PILnet
Maki Ebihara
YPB Member
Tania Goswami
YPB Member
Software Engineer, Compass
Raviraj Gulrajani
YPB Member
Director of Engineering, TremorVideo DSP Inc.
Kara Li
YPB Member
Instructor, Stony Brook University
Erica Lim
YPB Member
Program Manager, the Arcus Foundation
Co-Founder, Sister Diaspora for Liberation
Gabrielle O'Leary
YPB Member
Senior Wealth Strategy Associate, O'Leary Partners, UBS Financial Services Inc.
Alice Tang
YPB Member
Senior Manager of Digital Analytics, Fuse Media
Ling Tran
YPB Member
Software Developer Consultant, ThoughtWorks
Jessica Yang
YPB Member
Associate, Welsh Carson
